An Analysis of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989): Kiki’s Delivery Service is an animated movie produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by its co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. The film is an adaptation of the…
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Kieslowski’s first installment of Decalogue is like a shock that jolts you into a kind of reality the shrieks of which you hear often from behind locked doors— doors you are too…
The Killer (1989) Review: Chow Yun Fat’s character, Ah Jong, is an extremely skilled professional hitman. He engages in a shootout at a nightclub as part of one of his typical business…
Shehnai = Ustad Bismillah Khan; for anyone who is even remotely aware of Indian classical music. Both the Indian wind instrument and its maestro have become synonymous with each other, forging a…
From roughly the beginning of the ‘70s to the end of the ‘80s, a sudden resurgence of films in Australia flooded the local film scene with more than a handful of master-strokes comparable in quality and artistic merit to the concurrent movements occurring in the USA and the UK.
Dead Poets Society is yet another of my favourite films. When I watched it, I remember chiding myself for having deferred watching it for so long. I wished some teacher had told us about the movie in school. I felt like someone should have inspired me and kindled the passion for poetry in the same manner as is shown in the movie. But as they say every cloud has a silver lining. I watched it when I had turned to teaching as a profession.